Belgium
Bea Danckaert “Spontaneity inspires me. It is through the emotion of the moment, I create, through my love for God, man and life.” Bea Danckaert, an experienced meister-pinter was born and raised in Leuven, Belgium. She studied painting at the Art Academy Lei in her hometown and then under the veteran artist, Joost Laroy and then continued her apprenticeship under master painters Paul Marien, Frank De Wael, and Hilde Overberg. Curiously, Bea started out as a figurative artist, and did many portraits and landscapes in Fauvist colors and brushwork. Later in Brussels, under the guidance of Charlotte Vindevoghel, her work evolved and became more non-figural and eventually found her niche in abstraction. A style through which she is fully able to express her emotions, in technicolor, on her canvas in a fervent brushwork! She prefers working with acrylics on canvas, her art features a unique ‘color and light’ interplay, and it springs forth from emotion straight from her heart and her love for God, her fellow men, and for life itself. In her new paintings, Bea uses the acrylic pouring technique, where liquefied paint is poured into each other on the canvas and the paint is distributed on the entire surface by tilting the painting surface.
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